Public Goods, Environmental Externalities and Fiscal Competition

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Decentralised Resource Allocation Processes for Public and Private Goods

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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   2. Introduction

      • Jacques Drèze

      Pages 3-7

   3. Dynamic Processes for Public Goods: An Institution-Oriented Survey

      • Henry Tulkens

      Pages 9-48

   4. Surplus-Sharing Local Games in Dynamic Exchange Processes

      • Henry Tulkens, Shmuel Zamir

      Pages 49-62

   5. Exchange Processes, the Core and Competitive Allocations

      • Parkash Chander, Henry Tulkens

      Pages 64-79

   6. Commodity Exchanges as Gradient Processes

      • Claude d’Aspremont, Henry Tulkens

      Pages 81-95

3. Environment, Public Goods and Externalities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-99

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   2. Introduction

      • Parkash Chander

      Pages 101-105

   3. An Economic Model of International Negotiations Relating to Transfrontier Pollution

      • Henry Tulkens

      Pages 107-121

   4. Theoretical Foundations of Negotiations and Cost Sharing in Transfrontier Pollution Problems

      • Parkash Chander, Henry Tulkens

      Pages 123-134

   5. The Acid Rain Game as a Resource Allocation Process, with Application to Negotiations Between Finland, Russia and Estonia

      • Veijo Kaitala, Karl Göran Mäler, Henry Tulkens

      Pages 135-152

   6. The Core of an Economy with Multilateral Environmental Externalities

      • Parkash Chander, Henry Tulkens

      Pages 153-175

   7. A Core-Theoretic Solution for the Design of Cooperative Agreements on Transfrontier Pollution

      • Parkash Chander, Henry Tulkens

      Pages 176-193

   8. The Kyoto Protocol: An Economic and Game Theoretic Interpretation

      • Parkash Chandler, Henry Tulkens, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, Stephane Willems

      Pages 195-215

   9. Simulating Coalitionally Stable Burden Sharing Agreements for the Climate Change Problem

      • Johan Eyckmans, Henry Tulkens

      Pages 218-249

   10. Transfers to Sustain Dynamic Core-Theoretic Cooperation in International Stock Pollutant Control

       • Marc Germain, Philippe Toint, Henry Tulkens, Aart de Zeeuw

       Pages 251-274

4. Efficiency Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 275-277

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   2. Introduction

      • C. Knox Lovell

      Pages 279-284

   3. Measuring Labor-Efficiency in Post Offices

      • Dominique Deprins, Léopold Simar, Henry Tulkens

      Pages 285-309

Over the last forty years, the field of public economics has emerged as a modern successor to public finance. It has gained importance on the research agenda of economists and in the curricula of economics depa- ments. It has become a diversified field, rich in theoretical developments and substantive applications. Beyond the traditional concerns with t- ation or public goods, a number of new concerns have entered the scene, concerning for instance public sector pricing, the management of public firms, social security or federalism. A comprehensive presentation of the field extends nowadays beyond the scope of textbooks and requires access to a growing specialised literature. The present volume, collecting 22 papers published by Henry Tulkens over the period 1978–2003, is offered as an illustration of these new developments. The illustration has three dimensions: approach, s- ject matters and methods. Coming from a single author, admittedly assisted by 18 co-authors, the different papers are illustrative of an underlying general approach, which I like to label ‘‘operational public economics’’. With these simple words, I mean an approach under which issues in public economics are formulated so as to capture essential elements of actual situations. Ty- cally, this leads to theoretical models more complex than standard te- book formulations. It is then up to the public economist to extend the theory as needed to fit the situation.

• Climate Change
• negotiations
• public economics
• public finance
• public goods
• resource allocation

• National University of Singapore, Singapore

  Parkash Chander

• University of Georgia, USA

  C. Knox Lovell

• Howe Institute, University of Toronto, Canada

  Jack Mintz

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